linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] oom: Make coredump interruptible

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Message-ID: <20100602175325.GA16474@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Jun 2010 19:53:25 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom: Make coredump interruptible

On 06/02, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> Why not just test TIF_MEMDIE?

Because it is per-thread.

when select_bad_process() finds the task P to kill it can participate
in the core dump (sleep in exit_mm), but we should somehow inform the
thread which actually dumps the core: P->mm->core_state->dumper.

Well, we can use TIF_MEMDIE if we chose the right thread, I think.
But perhaps mm->flags |= MMF_OOM is better, it can have other user.
I dunno.

Oleg.

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